Publications of interest from around the organization
Newsletters
Special Reports
Online Brochures
Transition Documents
Scientific and Technical Publications
Planning and Review Documents
NSF, BASC, and Community Publications
Newsletters
Research & General News
Calendar of Boulder-area Seminars—atmospheric and Earth system
talks at NCAR, UCAR, NOAA, the University of Colorado, and elsewhere
on the Front Range
Press Clips—media coverage of
our people and projects
Research
in Brief—short articles about emerging research throughout
the organization
UCAR
Magazine—our research newsletter covers NCAR & UCAR
activities, resources, and services for the broad community
of universities and organizations engaged in atmospheric and
Earth system research (replaced the UCAR Quarterly in
fall 2009)
UCAR Update—monthly news
of postdoc openings, workshops, colloquia, and other activities
sponsored by NCAR & UCAR for the research community at large
Education News
Earth
and Space Science Education Newsletter—from Windows
to the Universe, available in English and Spanish
Education
and Outreach from NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory—sign up
to receive news highlighting
activities and opportunities related to our atmospheric sensing
instruments and facilities, including field project site visits
Explore the Atmospheric Sciences—our
newsletter of informal K-12 education happenings
SOARS Newsletter—updates
on the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and
Science internship program for undergraduate and graduate students
Earth,
Wind, Sea, and Sky—research abstracts from SOARS and
RESESS protégés, who gather in Boulder each summer to
perform original geoscience research
Education Archives
Science
Now (1993–2003)—feature stories, scientist profiles, and activities to
bring atmospheric science into the classroom
From Our Labs & Facilities
CISL News—frequent
updates on supercomputing and other facilities, research developments,
staff profiles, and more from the Computational and Information Systems
Laboratory.
Earth Observing Laboratory
News—frequent updates on lab news and
events,
plus RSS feeds.
Unidata
CommunitE-letter—online news from the Unidata community
on facilitating access to data and visualization software about
the Earth system for teaching and research
Weather and Society Watch—a
quarterly forum
for discussion and debate on current thinking about the societal
impacts of weather and weather forecasting, from NCAR's Societal
Impacts and Economic Benefits of Weather Information Program
(SIP)
Lab & Facility Newsletter Archives
Climate-Related
Impacts Network Newsletter (1995–2005)—archives of a quarterly
for those interested and involved in climate-related impact
assessment, from NCAR's Societal-Environmental Research and
Education Lab. Incorporates the ENSO Signal.
EOL Observer (2003–2006)—archives
of this quarterly covering field project support, observing
systems, instrument development, and the other services provided
by NCAR's Earth Observing Laboratory
Primarily for staff
Safety & Security
Committee Quarterly Newsletter
Security
Blanket  -
monthly articles on safeguarding our computing
infrastructure from the Security Engineering Group
Staff Notes—our
in-house newsletter covering science, administration, and human
interest.
Today@UCAR—our Internet news service for staff, including Daily Announcements, Calendar, Careers, Cafeteria Menu, Visitors (and Classifieds for staff only).
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Special Reports
Partnerships
Around the World: Advancing Our Understanding
of Earth's Atmosphere (2005)—UCAR
and NCAR work with universities and research
centers across the globe to learn more about
the atmosphere and its interactions with
the Sun, oceans, biosphere, and human society.
This publication highlights our collaborations
with researchers on every continent.
Highlights—an overview of UCAR research, technology, and education activities for a general audience, issued every two years.
UCAR at 40 (2000)—a special edition of Highlights spotlighting NCAR and UOP's collaborative journey with the atmospheric research community from 1985 to 2000, plus a look towards the future.
UCAR
at 25 (1985)—an informal look at
some of the contributions made to atmospheric
science from 1960–1985, produced in
celebration of the 25th anniversary of the
founding of UCAR and NCAR.
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Online Brochures
New Heights in Environmental Research: HIAPER (2004)—a research aircraft with exceptional capabilities will soon take to the skies: the High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research.
Picturing Climate's Complexity: The Community Climate System Model (2004)—an inside look at this community-built climate model, including its components, research highlights, and challenges for the future.
SCD Power Curve—occasional updates on how the Scientific Computing Division contributes to NCAR's research agenda.
NCAR Science Updates—
occasional broadsheets describing research developments at NCAR
 Air
quality
research (Winter 2006)
Solar
research (Spring 2005)
Climate
change impacts
(2004)
Climate
change research (2004)
NCAR
science in service to society (2002)
Recent
progress in climate-related research
at NCAR (2001)
A
down payment on the future: NCAR doubles
its junior scientist ranks (2001)
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Transition
Documents
During each presidential election cycle,
UCAR and the professional societies present
vital reasons to support research on weather
and climate as transition
materials for the incoming administration
and Congress.
Actions
to Make Our Nation Resilient to Severe Weather
and Climate Change (2008)
A National Priority: Building Resilience to Natural Hazards (2001)
Improved Weather and Climate Services for the Nation: A Blueprint for Leadership (2001)
Why Should You Care About Weather and Climate? (2000)
We Are Doing a Lot to Understand Weather and Climate (1997)
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Scientific and Technical Publications
NCAR
Annual Reports—NCAR’s
science and facility plans and accomplishments;
called NCAR Annual Scientific Reports
prior to 2005.
Publications
by NCAR Scientists—NCAR
Annual Reports list refereed and nonrefereed
articles for the fiscal year
covered by the report.
NCAR
Technical Notes—papers on
a variety of science-related topics
that would not otherwise be published
in journal, monograph, or book form
are available in digital form from
the NCAR Library.
NCAR
Cooperative Theses—products
of graduate research projects collaboratively
guided by a university faculty member
and an NCAR scientist.
Community scientific and technical publications
COSMIC research references—contributions relevant to the community of researchers working on the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate.
Unidata Bibliography—contributions by the Unidata community to the development of data sharing tools, software tools to use and visualize the data, and other resources.
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Planning and Review Documents
Strategic Plans: All current
plans
UCAR
2020: Strategic Outlook (2007)
UCAR
Education and Outreach Strategic Plan (2007)
Unidata:
A Strategic Outlook (2007)
NCAR
as an Integrator, Innovator, and Community Builder: A Strategy-Implementation
Plan (2006)
UOP
(now UCP) Strategic Plan: 2006–2011 (2006)
UCAR
Finance and Administration Strategic
Plan (2006)
NCAR's
Strategic Plan for High Performance Simulation (2000)
Other Planning and Review Documents
Field Program Support at UCAR: Report of the Field Program Support Committee (2005)
Measuring
the Productivity, Quality, and Impact of
UCAR Programs: Metrics Report (2005)
Archival Documents
The
Blue Book: Preliminary plans for a
National Institute for Atmospheric
Research (1959)
more archival planning documents >
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NSF, BASC,
and Community Publications
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Human
Capital Strategic Plan, NSF HCSP2008 (2008)
Competition
for the Management and Operation of
the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (2007)
Program
Solicitation, NSF 07-542
NSF
Strategic Plan (2006)
Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
(BASC)
Strategic
Guidance for the National Science Foundation's Support of the
Atmospheric Sciences (2007) BASC Report, National
Research Council, National Academies Press
Executive
Summary
Community Publications
Grand
Challenges for Disaster Reduction,
from the interagency Subcommittee on
Disaster Reduction, President’s
National Science and Technology Council,
(June 2005).
more archival community
documents >
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